Ranking Every Christopher Nolan Film

WE HAVE THE SAME TOP 7 🔥

Solid director, one of cinema's only few new current directors worth mentioning. He only has 2 trash films and one weak one, so pretty good ratio if u ask me. Here's how i rank his films.

12. Following: TRASH
11. The Dark Knight Rises: TRASH
10. Tenent: WEAK
9. Batman Begins: GOOD
8. Dunkirk: GOOD
7. Insomnia: GREAT
6. The Prestige: GREAT
5. Interstellar: CLASSIC
4. Oppenheimer: CLASSIC
3. Inception: CLASSIC
2. The Dark Knight: CLASSIC
1. Memento: CLASSIC

No interest in his new movie though, that cast puts me off so i'll pass on Odyssey.

You're right! All of his works are so hard to rank in any order and neither is he hard to rank within the best of all movie makers as in directors, producers, etc. I'm simply thankful for the experiences that all these talented people gave to us.

With that said, I like to compliment you on a great video that surpasses the rest. ❤

here is my ranking
12.Following
11.Dunkirk
10.Insomnia
9.Batman Begins
8.The dark knight rises
7.Tenet
6.Memento
5.Interstellar
4.Oppenheimer
3.The Prestige
2.Inception
1.The dark knight

the scene were batman doesn't save RAG is not killing him that scene is great

Idk if its me but this vid sounds too much like its written by ai

I would only swap Oppenheimer for Inception. Inception's concept was ground-breaking, the construction of all the layers is astonishing and how it keeps you on the edge until the end and how it wraps around the beggining just does it for me. Oppenheimer is one of the greatest biopics ever but Inception still gets me more. And yeah, The Prestige is soooo underrated overall it's almost painfull.

Edit: I love Interstellar with all my heart. The only film, to this day, that when I went to see it on the theatre and it ended, I just stood there thinking "what did I just see?", totally awe struck. No other film ever did that to me. I just witnessed movie history.

I just found this video after watching The Prestige. Here's my ranking from what I've seen:
1. Interstellar
2. The Dark Knight
3. Inception
4. Oppenheimer
5. Memento
6. The Prestige
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Dunkirk

Cause I can, my current ranking (given it changes regularly because I love them all):
1.) Interstellar
2.) Inception
3.) Oppenheimer
- Small Tier Gap -
4.) The Dark Knight
5.) The Prestige
6.) Dunkirk
- Tier Gap -
7.) Memento
8.) Batman Begins
- Tier Gap -
9.) The Dark Knight Rises
- Tier Gap -
10.) Insomnia
11.) Tenet [Need to Rewatch]
- Small Tier Gap -
12.) Following

I disagree with some of the placements

Rises is my favourite

I like interstellar

Going along with the first 3 movies like "okay, I understand the ranking." Seeing Batman Begins like "okayy that's kinda low." Seeing Tenet like "oh God, I forgot about Tenet.. how the hell!?" 😂 Overall it's a very solid ranking, just Inception is pretty low. I know it's blasphemy to some, but for the life of me I just have no motivation to rewatch Oppenheimer to give it another chance.

Based on the above films, here would be my ranking from first to last:

1. The Prestige
2. Inception (sometimes swaps with The Prestige)
3. The Dark Knight
4. Oppenheimer
5. Memento
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Dunkirk
8. Batman Begins
9. Tenet
10. Following
(Not seen Insomnia)

The Odyssey should be number 1.

Nolan movies do so much yapping instead of showing. Along with questionable audio mixing and abrupt editing, they often feel like a bunch of noise that looks like a movie but doesn’t feel like anything brilliant. They’re made for a massive, broad audience to have a decent time. If you want something boundary pushing, Nolan is not that guy. Competent? Sure. Crowd pleasing? Sure. But truly exciting? I don’t think so.

Sorry but IMHO Tenet is one of the worst expensive movies ever made. It's extremely complicated for nothing, I dislike the lead (he doesn't even have a name WTF), the color grading is ugly, the plot makes zero sense, it takes itself too seriously...

Dunkirk is mid I gotta be honest

Too bad The Odyssey is gonna be bullshit. Ruined his reputation.

I watched interstellar for the first time with my wife when she was pregnant. When I watched it the second time I was already a parent. Could not hold back the tears when Murphy said "Because my daddy promised me". This movie definitely hits completely different when you are a parent. However, still Interstellar is 'only" on 3rd place on my Nolan list only topped by Inception and the dark knight

Interstellar at #1 is hilarious

1.the dark Knight
2.inception
3.tenet
4.interstellar
5.memento
6.Oppenheimer
7.the Prestige
8.the dark Knight rises
9.batman begins
10.dunkirk
11.insomnia
12.following

I think the top 3 i would re order...because i believe Oppenheimer to be one of the greatest pieces of cinema of all time...for the mere fact that im not sure any other director could execute that story line amd all the layers so comprehensively with such intensity.

Dark knight mos def...another perfect movie...

Yes,.imterstellar...probably competes with Inception for me...

I respect this list other than your ranking of Dunkirk. I think it’s a masterpiece. Tarantino himself also said it was the best film of the 2010s.

I can understand why some people overlook it. I was disappointed on my first viewing.

Firstly, I was expecting more of a strategy/action film. However, it’s a film about how war boils down to small acts of human bravery.

Secondly, I didn’t fully appreciate the mechanic where the film portrays the same events from three different perspectives (land, sea and air – reflecting the 3 arms of the military), but each is happening over a different span of time, and they culminate at the end.

I think a lot of people missed these things too so I really encourage you to rewatch it

But I was blown away after I watched it again.

THE PRESTIGE
THE DARK KNIGHT
INTERSTELLAR
MEMENTO
INCEPTION
OPPENHEIMER
DUNKIRK
BATMAN BEGINS
TENET
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
FOLLOWING
INSOMNIA

it's almost impossible to rank those top 6.....if you ranked them 1A, 1B, 1C.....we'd understand!

Most likely a hot take, but I preferred TDKR over TDK. Wayne's come back ark and the perfect ending were enough for me to overlook the flaws.

Honestly everything was good until the last 3 rankings! If you knew anything you would put dark knight, momento and prestige as S tier

You were doing so well until number #1 interstellar doesn’t even come close to the dark knight

Insomnia no.1 for me.

This is my personal list.

1) Memento
2) Batman Begins
3) The Dark Knight
4) The Prestige
5) Inception
6) Interstellar
7) Tenet
8) Dunkirk
9) Oppenheimer
10) The Dark Knight Rises
11) Insomnia
12) Following

The top seven are really hard. to rank. I’ve only seen Tenet and Interstellar once. I enjoyed Inception less each time I watched it whereas The Prestige is the opposite. The Dark Knight is technically more impressive than Batman Begins and Heath Ledger’s performance is one of the greatest acting performances I’ve ever witnessed, but the movie has a lot more bloat and pointless scenes whereas Batman Begins tells a perfect super hero narrative. Memento doesn’t need IMAX and huge action budgets to deliver its message: it’s the pinnacle of Nolan’s out-of-sequence story telling which I feel has become blasé by the time you get to movies like Oppenheimer, which I found very overrated.

So happy about interstellar